…Nehru bought this line of thought in totality. ‘Let Jinnah have Pakistan’, he declared: ‘By cutting off the head we will get rid of the headache.’ It was a moment in history when circumspection and discretion in making public utterances should have been the order of the day. A leader who was reckoned to be the future prime minister of India should have known that there was much to be gained by silence or at least in not making speeches that could ...
